Ms. [Lisa] Murkowski (R-AK), joined by 35 Republicans and three conservative Democrats, proposed to use the Congressional Review Act to strip the agency of the power to limit emissions of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The Supreme Court gave the agency legal authority to regulate such emissions in a landmark 2007 ruling.

The speed from which we went from being a normal country in which both major party presidential candidates were committed to doing something about the climate crisis to one in which influential groups in both parties are so fanatically devoted to the interests of dirty energy producers that they’re ready to gut the Clean Air Act is staggering.